Here, Forster et al. compare 1354 cultured commensal strains (540 species) to 45,403 pathogen strains (12 species), identifying 64,188 MGE-mediated antibiotic resistance gene transfer events between the two groups, and show that 15 broad host range MGEs are able to transfer between phyla.
- Samuel C. Forster
- Junyan Liu
- Trevor D. Lawley
